--- title: "Special Agile Israel Meeting with Johanna Rothman: Moving Towards Agile Project Management" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/4/special-agile-israel-meeting-with-johanna-rothman-moving-tow.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/4/special-agile-israel-meeting-with-johanna-rothman-moving-tow.html" published: "2005-12-04T21:35:00" updated: "2005-12-04T21:35:00" tags: ["Agile Related", "Community", "Team Agile News"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I'm happy to announce that Agile Israel will host Johanna Rothman at an upcoming special meeting of the group. The meeting will take place next week, on December 15th (Thursday), at the Microsoft Offices in Ra'anana.…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Special Agile Israel Meeting with Johanna Rothman: Moving Towards Agile Project Management By Roy Osherove December 4, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community), [Team Agile News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-agile-news) **Historical article** · Originally published December 4, 2005; technical details may be outdated. I'm happy to announce that Agile Israel will host [Johanna Rothman](http://www.jrothman.com/) at an upcoming special meeting of the group. The meeting will take place next week, on **December 15th (Thursday),** at the Microsoft Offices in Ra'anana. **Please confirm your arrival so that we know how many people to expect.** This is Johanna's **second** talk at our group, the first one being on our second ever meeting. Her last talk was a huge success and audio recording of it can be downloaded from the Agile Israel site. Due to Johanna's visit this month and Hanukkah, **we're postponing** the next meeting of Agile Israel to January 5th. the meeting after that will occur on January 23rd **When**: December 15 Gathering at 17:30, we start promptly at 18:00 **Moving Towards Agile Project Management** Your project's ship date seems short for the necessary work. Your requirements are sure to change. Everyone's pounding on you for even more features. So, you realize that a conventional waterfall lifecycle is unlikely to solve your problems. You'd like to try an Agile lifecycle, but your organization is suspicious of Agile techniques, or doesn't know how to cope without the false assurance of a detailed Gantt chart. What can you do? Without completely changing everything you do in your projects, you can apply Agile principles to your projects--providing business value to your stakeholders and customers. In this session, through practice, we'll develop a framework--based on the kinds of risks you typically encounter--for integrating selected agile practices into different types of projects. **Learning Objectives:** - Learn about frameworks based on project risk - Develop a framework project managers can use to select agile practices that fit their projects - Illuminate key Agile practices. - Practice these Agile practices Johanna has been [interviewed](http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail392.html "http") on topics such as project management and hiring technical people. You can [listen to the interview over here](http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail392.html "http"). **Location** Meeting will take place at **Microsoft Ra'anana**: 2 Hapnina St, Raanana (09) 7625-100 Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the new building across from Amdocs. After the first traffic circle, there is an area for (free) parking on the right. **A little about Johanna** Johanna Rothman is a well-known consultant, speaker, and author on managing high-technology product development. During her decade-long consulting career, she has enabled managers, teams, and organizations become more effective applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management. She’s helped Engineering organizations, IT organizations, and startups hire, manage, and release successful products faster. Her assessment reports have helped managers and teams create and execute action plans that help them improve their projects and their processes. She is a sought-after speaker and teacher in the areas of project management, people management, and problem-solving. Johanna has written over 100 articles and papers and is now a columnist for Fast Company’s online career center, Software Development, Computerworld.com, and StickyMinds.com. Johanna is the author of the highly acclaimed [Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633595/ref=nosim/rds-20 "http"), and is the coauthor of [Corrective Action for the Software Industry](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN//0971323194/ref=nosim/rds-20 "http"). Johanna is also a host and session leader at the Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference. **See you there!** ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Dec 6, 2005 ### [Nice audio recordings about (Agile) management practices](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/6/nice-audio-recordings-about-agile-management-practices.html) - Dec 6, 2005 ### [Johanna at Agile Israel topic is set: Moving Towards Agile Project Management](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/12/6/johanna-at-agile-israel-topic-is-set-moving-towards-agile-pr.html) - Nov 28, 2005 ### [Agile Israel meets today! The Planning Game](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/28/agile-israel-meets-today-the-planning-game.html) - Nov 26, 2005 ### [Nice article on ordering code construction tasks by Jeremy Miller](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/26/nice-article-on-ordering-code-construction-tasks-by-jeremy-m.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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